Resilient support



Oct. 29, 1929. 1 J, wHlTE 1,733,479

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A Harney Patented oct. 29, 1929 UNITED STATES JOHN J. WHITE, or sroKANii,` WASHINGTON f RESILIENT SUPPORT Application inea september 4, 192s. seriailNo. 303,811; y

Mypresent invention relates to an improved resilient support or carrier for use upon vehicles, and while the support is capable of use with various objects or articles to be trans 5 ported it is especially designed for the purpose of sup orting portable outboard motors for boats. s is Well known these motors are attached to and removable from the stern of the boat as desired, and frequently the boat o owner is called upon to transport the motor from the boat to a storeroom. The parts of the motor are susceptible to breakage or damage in rough handling when the motor is out of its proper element, and to overcome these langers in carrying the motor from the storeroom to the boat or vice versa, I have invented a resilient support which is attachable to the running-board of an automobile. The resilient support is provided with means whereby a motor may be carried without danger of breakage, and the support is designed to act as a shock absorber to prevent transmission of vibrations from the traveling automobile to T the motor. Means are provided whereby the o support may with facility be attached to or detached from the automobile, and means are provided whereby kthe outboard motor, may be properly held in position on the support so that it may be transported without danger 30 of accidental displacement.

The invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed. In the accompanying drawings I have illus- 35 trated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the arts are combined and arranged according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure l is a perspective view showing so much as is necessary of an automobile yfor the purpose of illustrating the attachment thereto of thev support of my invention, the outboard motor being shown carried by the support. Figure 2 is a view in side eleva-tion of the support. Figure 3 is a top plan view of the support. Figure 4 is a front end view of the support.

In order that the ygeneral assembly and relation: of parts may readily'fbe understood I have indicated yin Figure 1 a portion `of an automobile as A having a usualfrunningboard Rt The outboard motorthat is illustratedinFigure l is of conventional? type for n use with boatsl and comprises the motory M and the propellerP, and also includes an at taching yoke Y byfmean's of which the ,motor is attacliedatftlie stern lof the boat.

In carrying out my invention'r board las 1 which is approximately they width of the running-board R and somewhat shorter y y 'in length than the running board. A springboard 2 is hinged at3y at one/end of the base- *i board and near theforward ends of the baseboard and f springboard la pair of vertical guideplates4 are used. `The guide plates are attached tothe oppositeedges ofthe baseboard and they ,are of suiiicient length to act as guides for the. free end of the spring board 2. ry The baseboard is provided with a guide bolt 5 which projects through an openingin the springboard and above the springboard fr a spring 6 is posed between the head of the boltand the upper face of they springboard. Betweenfthe baseboard andthe springboard a pair of springs 7, 7 are interposed and it will rbe ap- 3 parent that these three springs provide a j resilient support,y for the springboard above the baseboard so that the springboard may y move relatively to the baseboardy and kany shocks or vibrations transmitted to the springboard from `the runningboai'd and baseboard will be absorbed by these springs.

On `the upper face of thespringboard a ,y

bench 8 is provided and secured in an in-y clined plane by means of blocks 9 and 10 to i the springboard. The support may be at- '4 tached to the runningboard in suitable man# ner, as for instance by the use of clamps 11 and clamp bolts 12 located near the forward and rear ends of the support. These clamp devices rigidly secure the support kto the runi ningboard but they also insure facility in removing the support from the runningboard when the support kis not needed.

The outboard motor is attached to thesup-r l port through the instrumentality of its yoke I use a basei y coiled about the bolt and inter-y f Y and clamps 13, in the same manner that the outboard motor is attached to the boat which is to be propelled.

As thus illustrated and described it Will be apparent that the outboard motor may be transported on the automobile Without danger of accidental displacement and .also Without danger `oifbreakage or damage due to excessive `shocks or vibrations of the travveling automobile.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. The combination in a resilient'support With a baseboa-rd and a hinged springboard and guide means for the springboard, of resilienty means at opposite sides of the springboard for absorbing movement of the Vspringboard Yrelatively to the baseboard.

2. The `combination in a. spring support adapted for use With a. vehicle of a baseboard and a springboard hinged thereto, side guide plates for the springboard7 a pair of springs Abetween Vthe springboard and the baseboa-rd,

25 and a spring located against the outer face of vthe springboard. y

3'. The combination with a baseboard, a hinged springboard, and lside guide plates, of a pair of springs between the springboard and the baseboard, a bolt in the baseboard v passing through the springboard y and 'a spring ron said bolt bearing against the outer face of the springboard and an inclined bench securedfto the outer -faoe of the springboard. In testimony Whereofl affix my signature.

JOHN J. `WHITE 

